Monster Design Contest Submissions Thread-Shapeshifters! [5E]

[JNAProductions]

This contest's theme is Shapeshifters.

Hello, and welcome all to the Chat thread for a Monster Design Contest for 5E! Requirements are as follows:
-Must be original content. An updated monster from an earlier edition or a mythological monster is okay to make, but the statblock itself should be your own unique creation.
-The monster must be made for this contest. No submitting an earlier work!
-The monster should be linked to in the this thread. It can be posted elsewhere, but must be easily accessible from there.
-Multiple monsters may be submitted if they are part of the same grouping. For instance, a set of Giants is acceptable, but a Giant, a Toad, and an Elemental are not.

And... Um, that's about it, that I can think of. CR 0 is just as valid as CR 30. If anyone has any ideas for more rules, feel free to suggest!

Chat Thread (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?560102-Monster-Design-Contest-Chat-Thread-5E&p=23110837#post23110837)

[JNAProductions]

Intelligent Armors (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?560106-Intelligent-Armor-Monsters&p=23110898#post23110898)

My submission. Will be updating as time goes on with more armors.

[PhoenixPhyre]

The Twisted Shaman
Creators Note: This might be pushing the theme a little bit, but it's a fun mechanic.

When goblin shamans seek out (or are touched by) certain Abyssal powers, they can be mutated into twisted shamans. Each one is unique and lives to sculpt living beings (starting with its tribe members) into horrific artwork. Take care when fighting them, because there are rumors that they come back from death in a new, more horrible form.


Base form (the tool I was using wouldn't let me give it only 1 legendary action, so I had to make both cost 2):
https://www.admiralbenbo.org/images/creatures/twisted-shaman.v3.png


2nd form (this time it worked :smallfurious:):
https://www.admiralbenbo.org/images/creatures/twisted-shaman-abomination.v3.png

[Requilac]

The Yubsharasehn

I present to you all The Yubsharasehn, a sort of misquito-vampire hybrid. There a total of four creatures, each one representing an evolutionary stage of the same type of creature. This supports the theme because over time the creature's shape/form shifts from a normal humanoid to a fey spirit. You can find it in the homebrewery document below, or if that doesn't work for you check the google document. The spoiler after my submissions explain my rationale behind the name and my inspiration for the monster.

Homebrewery Document: http://homebrewery.naturalcrit.com/share/r1721KCBeQ

Google Document: https://docs.google.com/document/d/13CRjumwIMktelm018qdZmFvr5K1Gt5igVEMecMWSP24/edit?usp=sharing

I wanted to make them sound otherworldy, so a name which is hard to pronounce subconsciously instills a mood of strangeness to them. I created the word Yubsharasehn by first translating the phrase "Soul Eater" into a russian then changing letters of the word until it sounded the way I wanted it to.

In a GitP thread discussing common misconceptions children have about fantasy, one that was commonly spoken is that some posters falsely believed vampires siphoned blood through a probiscis. This get me thinking about a sort of reimagination of a vampire; something more repulsive and less sexy.

In another thread discussing how undead should act, a poster I cannot remember claimed that undead should probably experience emotional loss because they can't feel emotions the same way anymore and are filled with negative energy. Originally the Yubsharasehn were supposed to be undead, but early in creation I made them fey. I feel that faeries are poorly represented in 5e, and making the Yubsharasehn one it would distinguish them from traditional vampires. That and I had just finished Watching Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norell and reading some of Grimm's Tales so I gained a sort of interest in fey.

As for the whole business with the soul consuming and the horrifying cocoons, that was directly stolen from a fable from Grimm's Tales which I can't remember the name of.

Sorry folks, nothing about this monster is original.

[WarrentheHero]

MIMICS
You know 'em, you hate 'em, now you have more of 'em. Everything is a Mimic.
This doc has 3 different kinds of Mimics, and two variants.
The Greater Mimic is pretty much a straight upgrade of the mimic to provide a threat for mid-level parties, and has a nifty ability to change its phyicical structure into glass, metal, stone, or wood.
The Elder Mimic follows the same general idea of 'straight upgrade' as the Greater, but with one new ability: Building Shapechange. The mimic can turn itself into a building and eat you once you're already inside!
The Lordran Mimic is a translation of the awful boys from the Dark Souls series. They aren't very strong combatants, until they get their hands on you for a near-guaranteed one-shot at mid to low levels!

The two variants are for Sizechange Mimics, which basically lets them change sizes and get buffs to strength but penalties to ac, or vice-versa, and for Mimic Colonies, for those sociable mimics that don't want to go it alone and also if you as the DM want an entire bar to just be mimics.

I know the formatting is a bit weird, and I apologize. I tried to condense everything into as little space as possible, and Markup didn't like that. I'd go back and try to fix it, but GM Binder hit a major problem for some reason and I basically lost all of my content for this doc on that site. The sharable link should work for it, but the code itself is messed up and nearly unedit-able. If I feel like it or want to make major edits, I might go back and re-write the whole thing and hope it works. GM Binder is a mimic!

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1ktm2kXeLqrY9ug7EApoDy54aWt9DM-rP/view?usp=sharing for the Google Doc version.